tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68200878854480168222024-09-11T03:47:23.711+02:00... experiences on and with Linux.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-12934453758875501662012-06-10T15:25:00.000+02:002012-06-10T15:25:30.250+02:00

I have been battling with my Ubuntu off ad on for some months now and I finallay had enough. Time to reinstall and costumize my Ubuntu. To minimize risk of probles in the future, I have decided to focus this install on being a production machine so no testing/unstable will be installed.. All future testing will be done on virtual machines. So now I have a fresh, vanilla install of Ubuntu 12.04

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-31902346528717517242011-10-27T14:00:00.002+02:002011-10-27T14:00:30.089+02:00

* Attention *      This is a Work in Progress (WiP)      *Attention * This post will cover the use of AccountManager (available in Android 2.0 and onwards) to access Google Accounts online. It is a research article I am putting together mainly for my own use but my preliminary research revealed very few postings on the net, so I thought I'd keep it available online

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Muktware.com has released <a href="http://www.muktware.com/ubuntu-manual/1110">The most beautiful Ubuntu Manual.</a> It covers the new Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric ocelot and it is targeted towards beginners and looks quite promising. It covers the basic areas and more will be added if interest is shown.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-61475611999364548432011-08-28T22:30:00.001+02:002011-08-28T22:30:19.951+02:00

Preview of Google TV Add-on for the Android SDK - http://pulse.me/s/1ifb4

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Having played a bit with debian, I decided to try Ubuntu once more. And thankfully Ubuntu Studio have decided to stay without unity as the default workbench. So I installed 11.04 i386. Installation was pretty much event-less except, that the WLAN (Wireless Network card) was not recognized during the installation process. I decided to skip the network setup and installed all the 5 predefined

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Having run Ubuntu for quite a while now I decided to upgrade to 11.04 with full knowledge of unity being the new desktop. I can see a lot of potential in unity especially for novice users and as such I do not denounce unity. But for now I cannot get used to it myself. And so I decided to try debian yet again. I started using Linux a long time ago installing Red Hat 4.2 on a Pentium Classic PC.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-76130268538274582592010-12-03T09:28:00.001+01:002010-12-09T09:21:46.658+01:00

Updated Dec 9th 2010 - see below... I was recently in the market for a new laptop as the old one was slow and the battery was almost done for. That laptop now services mainly as a portable DVD & netplayer for my 4 year old son, Isaac. The battery is almost gone (5.5 % is reported by Ubuntu) but it is still enough to move the laptop from one wall socket to the other. As my budget was quite

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-44427187873709595272010-11-17T11:43:00.000+01:002010-11-17T11:43:45.437+01:00

Recently my Synaptics TouchPad stopped working in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. It works fine in Windows 7 and the TouchPad works even in Ubuntu on login screen prior to logging in. If I use the "disable TouchPad" button Ubuntu shows that the Touchpad is now on, if I press it again, it shows the TouchPad is off. So when the hardware believes the TouchPad is live, Ubuntu/X "closes its ears" as

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So I finally started looking into git as a version control system. I have yet to do any serious use of it, but I have run into a few snags. I want to use git for version control of several private projects. Currently I have both website and Android development projects running and I would also like to start a few C projects (for Linux). And I would like the repositories to be placed in a

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-77995023338470844892010-11-04T09:29:00.000+01:002010-11-04T09:29:14.953+01:00

After a few days of playing with Windows 7 on my new Aspire 5738ZF (see ) I finally had some time to install Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). As this laptop is equipped with a 64-bit processor (Pentium T4500) and 4 GB of memory, I decided to install the 64-bit Desktop Edition with the Dual Boot option. Installation went fine and without hitches, everything seems to have been recognised

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-3443575505645179872010-10-30T15:00:00.000+02:002010-10-30T15:00:33.692+02:00

My trusty old Acer TravelMate 2490 is getting - well old. It is running Windows XP ok, but could do with a reinstall. Ubuntu has been performing well and I recently upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10. But memory is sparse (1.5 GB - well enough for Ubuntu - a little on the low side for Windows XP) and the battery is tired - very tired. Ubuntu reports that it is down to 6.6 % and it can barely hold power

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-54092026110465275002010-04-20T11:47:00.001+02:002010-04-20T11:48:45.286+02:00

This is a progress update for the Analytics4Android Google Analytics Widget project for Android Mobile phones. Not much seems to have happened since the end of March when I last made an update public. I have had the (mis)fortune of having too little time for this project that tangible progress has emerged. I am - however - still working on this project although I have not had much time to do so.

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I just picked up Android Application Development from O'Reilly and Beginning Android from Apress from my local library. I reserved them some time in mid February but as my local library did not have any copies themselves, they had to get them from another library, thus the long wait. Android Application Development has been written with the experienced (Java) Developer in mind. Thus you

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-91447230205271469792010-03-28T20:30:00.000+02:002010-03-28T20:30:14.424+02:00

Analytics4Android is now up to version 0.15 and we are half way to the next mile stone. It can now retrieve the Analytics Account profile feed. Next task is to parse that feed. UI development is on hold for now. I want to implement a tabbed UI and it is currently giving me a headache. Apparently it is a bug in eclipse and/or the Android SDK/ADT. Tomorrow will be the start of the profile feed.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-78374937197268353972010-03-28T19:36:00.000+02:002010-03-28T19:36:51.474+02:00

Just wanted to share this little bit of info with those of you have yet to find it! When making queries against the Google Analytics (GA) (and most likely all Google) Data Export APIs when you have authenticated using ClientLogin the authentication type sent as a header in HTTP GET. I missed that somehow and kept getting "401 Token Invalid - Invalid AuthSub Token" when trying to retrieve the GA

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After a lot of problems getting eclipse to run with the Android Development Tools (see this post: ) I have been doing a bit of refactoring of my Analytics4Android code today. The refactoring was to streamline the way I handle Google logins and accounts to that I can re-use that code in other projects. Thus there has been no 'feature enhancements' but the minor version number has been incremented

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-33824935310366420402010-03-25T13:47:00.000+01:002010-03-25T13:47:50.767+01:00

I filed my very first bug on Lanchpad on Tuesday (23rd of March 2010). My Nautilus hangs (bug #544859) (apparently in an infinite loop) when I open Trash. It uses a lot of CPU and greys the window after about 5 secs. Only way out is to force quit the window. I haven't reproduced this fault in any other "places" than Trash. I have filed a backtrace and it appears to be a memory allocation problem

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-42432004297531383942010-03-25T13:28:00.005+01:002010-03-26T13:20:36.518+01:00

Last Update 25/3 21:56 - problem solved In my efforts to solve my problems with Eclipse and Android working on my Ubuntu Linux 10.04 lucid lynx Beta 1(and earlier Alphs 3) I decided to remove Eclipse completely using synaptic and marking eclipse and its components for "Complete Removal". I deleted the workspaces I had lying around and I went on a hunt for any eclipse-related (config) files with

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-10332287936607047662010-03-24T10:30:00.000+01:002010-03-24T10:30:05.329+01:00

During all my toils of getting my development machine back up working (laptop using Eclipse to do a little Android development) I have been doing a lot of backups. And have had to struggle with it. So where are the easy backup solutions for (Ubuntu) Linux lurking about? I need to do a backup to (and restore from) external media CDs or DVDs, preferably RWs. Which software handles that

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-87037849342187951152010-03-23T12:42:00.000+01:002010-03-23T12:42:10.393+01:00

For several reasons I have decided to move to Ubuntu 10.04 lucid lynx beta 1 from the alpha 3 I am running at the moment. I am keeping my /home partition while wiping my / partition. Most of this morning has gone with getting the beta 1, writing it to disk and backing up my /home. I found a spare DVD+RW disc to put the backup on. But I have been fighting with Ubuntu to format/blank this disc

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I am having a few problems since my upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid lynx), working in Eclipse. I cannot install the Android Development Tools (ADT). I cannot even get in contact with the Eclipse repositories. I have tried both the Ubuntu package of Eclipse and the .tar ball from eclipse.org. It makes no difference. I seem to have no other difficulties with my lucid lynx, other than that WINE does

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-90783061708963993752010-03-19T13:11:00.000+01:002010-03-19T13:11:47.977+01:00

While the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Beta 1 release is yet to happen I decided to go with the Alpha 3. I could have waited for the Beta 1 which was originally scheduled for release yesterday but apparently is supposed to be released today, but I felt that I would loose yet another day not being able to work on Analytics 4 Android. So I jumped in at the deep end and installed Alpha 3. (all photos

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-60794423860042786102010-03-18T10:43:00.000+01:002010-03-18T10:43:40.244+01:00

As I wrote yesterday, my laptop is running an Ubuntu 9.10 that has basically been around since 7.10 or 8.04 and has been incrementally upgraded through 8.10, 9.04 and lately 9.10. And I have installed and removed a number of programs. Which all means that there must be residual files, that are no longer needed. The laptop is not a new machine as you can imagine. The battery is getting closer to

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09901791275846778181noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6820087885448016822.post-38574095696583766182010-03-17T14:38:00.001+01:002010-03-17T14:41:22.327+01:00

I am currently experiencing problems that might have roots in problems with my Eclipse IDE and the installed Android SDK (which might actually have r4, not r5, for which Eclipse had downloaded its r5 parts). So I have wasted valuable time trying to debug the new UI for Analytics 4 Android. So no real advancement on that front. I have downloaded and installed the new SDK r5 and Eclipse is now

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Last Update:  March 17th, 2010 9:42 CET I have started work on an Application/Widget that can retrieve and display data from Google Analytics, for mobile phones running on the Android platform. This will be my first application and Widget for Android and as such it is both a learning as well as a production project as the outcome should be a usable Application/Widget. As work is still in

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